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HORST MARIA GUILHAUMAN

HORST MARIA GUILHAUMAN - Recent Works

"THE TRANSFIGURATION"

A SEPTETTO ALLEGORIA

Fundamentalism, or literalism is essential to religious art.  Symbolic language, narrative metaphores and parables, and actual events reported in the Bible, provided the underlying storyline for “The Transfiguration”. Even where the original tale is a parable, and its meaning abstract, I had to take the details “pro forma” via my painters palette to make it resonate with my vision - to convey the same depths that lie everywhere beneath the surface of the Biblical narratives and lives of the Saints.

 

A fairy tale or dusty Biblical Prophecies of the ancient past? Of a past, in which God inspired the Apostle John to discuss, what is commonly called “The Four  Horseman of the Apocalypse.” From an artist's perspective, I am more in favour of an apocalyptic divine inspired fairy tale. Influenced by Albrecht Durer, 16th century German painter, whose vivid realistic renderings of the apocalypse, inspired my early artistic fantasies at age 15 to draw and ride the horses right out of my sketch book. Adding to it my undying love for the Brother Grimm’s fairy tales, and you have me, seven decades later, painting the last chapter of the prophetic saga - unleashing the Horses of the Apocalypse.”

 

"THE HORSES OF THE APOCALYPSE"

It can be said, that he is the happy man who is always seeking to conform his life to the divine ideal. When this is the main thought in life, all else is dignified, and one as truly leads an artists life in ones attempt to depict the character of the invisible.

 

In my Quest to find and to re-kindle the divine spark that lies within the spiritual dimensions of artistic explorations, the “Allegoria ”Septetto” is testimony of that Quest.

 

                                                               Anno Dominus May 3, 2023